The court denied defendant's mistrial motion made after the prosecutor, without having obtained a ruling on the matter during the pretrial Sandoval hearing, asked defendant on cross-examination whether he had owed child support arrears at the time of the alleged sale of narcotics. Even assuming that the prosecutor's questions violated the Sandoval ruling, the court properly exercised its discretion in denying the mistrial motion. The court provided a sufficient...
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